The conflict in South Ossetia will consolidate Georgia’s elites, bringing them closer to the West.  That’s the view of Viktor Mizin, a political analyst from the Institute of Strategic Assessment in Moscow.

Tbilisi faces international condemnation for triggering a military conflict in its breakaway republic of South Ossetia. That’s the view of Konstantin Kosachev, the Head of the Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee.

The Georgian President has called up his country’s entire reserve force while South Ossetia has appealed to Russia for help. Aleksandr Pikayev from the Committee of Scientists for Global Security looks at how the conflict might develop.

The Georgian Prime Minister says the offensive in its breakaway region of South Ossetia will continue until peace is re-established. Kirill Bessonov, journalist with the Moscow News, says Russia will not get involved militarily.